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Dirk Bogarde

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QuartetQuartet (1949) Recommended
Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman
Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
Boys in Brown, TheBoys in Brown, The (1949)
Dir. Montgomery Tully
Feat. Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde
Soft youth rebellion drama with Jack Warner as warden of a borstal struggling to keep his tempestuous young charges in line. Mostly of note for its…
Blue Lamp, TheBlue Lamp, The (1950)
Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Patrick Doonan, Jack Warner
A confident, precisely–judged thriller set in post–war London, with feral petty–crooks Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan being hunted…
So Long at the FairSo Long at the Fair (1950)
Dir. Antony Damborough, Terence Fisher
Feat. Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson
Spooky urban legend gets the cinematic treatment in this accomplished chiller. At the 1896 World Fair in Paris two siblings check into a hotel, in…
Gentle Gunman, The (1952)
Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, John Mills
Dirk Bogarde and John Mills are Irish brothers sent to London by the IRA during the Blitz, but one succumbs to pacifism.
HuntedHunted (1952)
Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Keen
Brit suspense trailing an orphan on the run from his foster parents wrath after an accident who is kidnapped by a wanted criminal who trys to prevent…
They Who DareThey Who Dare (1953)
Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
Bonus film with SLEEPING TIGER is a Dirk Bogarde WWII actioner that details a commando raid on German–controlled Aegean air fields.
Doctor in the HouseDoctor in the House (1954) Recommended
Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
First and best of a series in which Doctors and Nurses exchange fleeting glances and banter for comic effect while training at a med school. Dirk…
Sleeping TigerSleeping Tiger (1954)
Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Doctor at SeaDoctor at Sea (1955)
Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot
Dirk Bogarde is once again the eligible MD, in this entertaining second entry in the series taken from Richard Gordon's novels. The crushing boredom…
Spanish Gardener, TheSpanish Gardener, The (1956)
Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sir Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack
Curious father/son drama with Bogarde in the title role forming a close relationship with a young boy much to his father's envy. Narrative wise…
Ill Met By MoonlightIll Met By Moonlight (1957)
Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley
Conventional WW2 flick focused on a group of Resistance fighters in German occupied Crete who hatch a plan to kidnap the head of the German army.…
Tale of Two Cities, ATale of Two Cities, A (1958)
Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence
An intrepid Dirk Bogarde negotiates the rough and tumble of the French Revolution, in this, the version most faithful to the Charles Dickens novel.…
Song Without EndSong Without End (1960)
Dir. Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Genevieve Page, Capucine
Pleasant biopic of the great composer Franz Liszt which despite focusing mostly on his love affairs does boast a terrific score. This was Charles…
VictimVictim (1961)
Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…
Singer Not the Song, TheSinger Not the Song, The (1961)
Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot
Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
Damn the Defiant!Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)
Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle
Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
Servant, TheServant, The (1963) Recommended
Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles
First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
Mind Benders, TheMind Benders, The (1963) Recommended
Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, Michael Bryant
A sombre and sobering thriller about the dangers of scientific experiments into sensory deprivation. Investigating the suicide of a colleague,…
I Could Go on SingingI Could Go on Singing (1963)
Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman
A successful singer visits her estranged son while on tour in England. Teary melodrama was Garland's last film and featured arguably her best acting.
King and CountryKing and Country (1964) Recommended
Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
Earnest, expertly acted drama in which a detached army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) attempts to defend a working–class deserter (Tom Courtenay) during…
High Bright Sun, TheHigh Bright Sun, The (McGuire, Go Home!) (1964)
Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg
Convoluted espionage tale with Bogarde on the trail of a Cypriot freedom fighter with an American Archaeology student holding the key to his…
Hot Enough For JuneHot Enough For June (1964)
Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley
A struggling young writer is plunged into a terrifying world of international espionage while on a seemingly innocent commercial assignment to Prague.
DarlingDarling (1965) Recommended
Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde
Oscar–winning, watershed film of British sexual mores is a fashionably flashy and cynical moral fable. Julie Christie social climbs to a…
Modesty BlaiseModesty Blaise (1966)
Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp
Comic–strip style adventures of a sexy female spy, filmed at the height of the pop–art craze.
AccidentAccident (1967)
Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Vivien Merchant, Michael York
The second classic Joseph Losey / Harold Pinter collaboration takes place in a deceptively placid Oxford University setting, that conceals…
Damned, TheDamned, The (1968)
Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger
Italian dir. Luchino Visconti casts a languorous eye over the decline of a German industrialist family during the Nazi era. Heavyweight cast includes…
Oh! What a Lovely WarOh! What a Lovely War (1969) Recommended
Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves
Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
Death in VeniceDeath in Venice (1971)
Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde plays a gay composer whose unspoken obssesion with a young boy detains him in Venice during a cholera epidemic. This soft–focus,…
Night Porter, TheNight Porter, The (1974) Recommended
Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
Bizarre yet sensual melodrama about an ex–gestapo officer who resumes a sado–masochistic affair with his Jewish former–prisoner.…
ProvidenceProvidence (1977)
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn
John Gielgud plays a dying writer struggling to complete his final novel. Unusual film juxtaposes his imagined thoughts with events from his…
DespairDespair (1977)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
Fassbinder's blackly comic adaptation of Nabakov's novel about delusion, depression and decline of the human spirit. Dirk Bogarde plays a Russian…
Bridge Too Far, ABridge Too Far, A (1977)
Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Robert Redford, Sean Connery
Perhaps a battle–scene too far for some, but for afficiandos this epic account of an abortive Allied invasion of Holland is sure to provide…

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